My Installation work.

ALLAN KAPROW

He was born in August 23, 1927, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was a student of art-history and philosophy between 1946-52. He died aged 78 in April 5, 2006.

Allan Kaprow inspired me to work with words to show and express my emotions and experiences.

He works with dirty, rough materials such as corrugated cardboard. The artist clearly shows his dark emotions by using black and white shades. He never uses bright colors in his artwork!

Lighting is used to make words glow. It creates low-key lighting, which adds to the emotions the room gives off.

 

 

GOZDE EWER

Gozde Eker is a freelance prop stylist from Istanbul, Turkey, and    currently is based in Brooklyn, New York.

She uses a varied assortment of discarded domestic items, for instance books, plants, toys and tiles. The objects became a creative medium in the materialization of elaborate scenes, crafted entirely from unwanted materials they found abandoned.

She brings interior routines outdoors, to the urban cityscape.

People are used to complete the design. They make the space seem functional.

Bettman and Eker claim they’re not littering but rather “curating furniture that has been disposed of and putting it all in one area for the community to see.”

MY INSTALLATION.

My installation is based on personal experiences of working at McDonald's. Some of the set is influenced by the scene with the Cheshire cat in “Alice in Wonderland”.

The eyes with the grinning faces, represent the managers which constantly watch over me. They insist that I always smile to the customers. But do the customers realize the great service and effort, I put into serving them?

I used abandoned gardening items which I collected from Nuneaton dump to make it more clearer that its about my personal experiences with work. I got my inspiration for this idea from the artists I researched called Gozde Eker.

The work is set outside because it represent me being way from socialisation. I'm trapped in this work related area and I cannot get out. I feel that I'm trapped because I seem to never have time for my self, I'm always working. The day I designed this installation was the day, I was quite annoyed with work because I was told that I wouldn’t be having many days off in the Christmas holiday.

This question “Customer do you Realize?” relates to me putting lots of effort into customer service and then wondering if the customer noticed.

The question “can anyone hear me?” Relates to me being isolated in this world of work. Seeing all my old friends having fun and socializing makes me feel trapped because I seem to never see them

“you must be happy! smile!” is what the managers basically demand off me.

“Am I really happy?” represent the fact that I feel and appear depressed but then told to smile. They seem not to care why I feel depressed. They only respect and care for the customers, not their employees.

The yellow jacket represents hard work. Its usually dirty so it looks like it been worked in a lot. People wearing it are assumed to have worked hard.

EVALUATION.

I could have put McDonald's packaging together to make boards, this would have made it more relevant to me being annoyed with McDonald's because so far it appears that I'm annoyed with hard, laborious work for instance gardening and construction.

The setting could have been different as its, again not relevant to McDonald's. The installation could have been placed next to a bush or tree, which is near to McDonald's. The installation alternatively could have been placed in the middle of a dark woods as it would have emphasized the lack of socialisation.

The yellow jacket could be replaced with my McDonald's uniform, for instance the apron, trousers and polo shirt. McDonald's packaging with a scrunched up and destroyed appearance could have been placed along the floor to emphasize that link with abandonment.

Lighting next time should be used to make the appearance of installation, more sinister and negative.

The artist Allan Kaprow used lots of board with words on them. I believe, I should have used more boards to create the same effect as he did.

 

 

Birmingham Trip. Reason for photos.

This artwork inspired me to ask questions in my artwork, because in this piece it made me more involved and interested by the process of asking questions like "If you make art what happens when you die?". The questions and sentences make it clear what the artist is experiencing and trying to express through their work. The question asked makes it clear that the artists is trying to express negative, dark emotions probably because their experiencing something which has caused them pain.

I took this picture for future use, as it might give me inspiration for my installation.






This piece of the artwork made me more interested, in using string to hang items as it gave the audience more than one point of view, on the work as the item could be observed in a 360 motion.
Hanging items, makes the artwork more surreal, therefore making it more interesting. The objects (paintbrushes) presented are not random, but related to the words used, this therefore makes the image the artist is trying to portray more clearer.

This picture was taken as it might be used for inspiration when arranging objects for future work.







This installation was present at the Icon. Its called "THE NAM. I took this photo because the way color is used to make mixed emotions is very inspirational. Its made me consider the connotations of color more when using it in my future work.

This installation changed due to the change in light which made me almost agitated. This has inspirited me to use lighting in my future work to make my work give off different emotions.

This artwork was most related to my abandoned theme. I believe the artist was trying to convey that abandoned objects have beauty behind them. The abandoned item being a empty canister and the beauty being a flower growing in the soil the abandoned object is buried in. the artwork alternatively suggests that nature is taking over and destroying man made objects. I believe he is trying to portray this war between nature and man. The artist Mat Collishaw was the most inspiring artist on the trip, I believe personally. He likes to show the negative aspects of life around use, for instance one of installation was based on a series of 12 crime scenes.





This photo was of the lift buttons at the Walsall Museum. I was intrested in the texture which was given off by the relfection of the light on the scratched metal. I believed this photo was appealing to the eye, due to the difference in tone between the top and bottom of the photo.






This texture was both smooth and rough. I believe it captured the man made world we live in. The dull, grey color of the texture made the atmosphere feel different. It was if all the joy was sucked out of the room, because it was colorless. Color plays a big part in creating emotions.

Dain

Dain

Miranda Right, 2013 (Dain).

Miranda Right was made in 2013, the artworks appearance connects with the time it was made, because it uses bright primary colors, for instance blue, pink and yellow, all present on the background. The composition of the drawing contributes to the contemporary appearance.

Dain does a lot of street art, mainly in Brooklyn, New York. Dain usually takes the face of a female glamour star and matches it to a body of a male. He then add a mixture of spray paint, bright color, graffiti and collage. Dain mostly commonly uses bits of ripped up magazine titles. Dain doesn’t make his artwork for a certain person, but for everyone in New York. His artwork is made for the public, because his artwork is presented on the streets of New York. Dain’s trademark is the circle with the drip.

In 2013 and presently women are presented by Hollywood and the media to be sex objects and weak. Dain in his artwork shows the views of graffiti as well as femininity of Hollywood subjects. This work shows the clear and common appearance of people, which live in a more economically developed country such as America. The bit of an image of jewelry, perhaps diamonds shows off the wealth of the country, it also supports the idea of diamonds being a girl’s best friend.

The artist doesn’t use any information for instance labels this makes the audience able to have a wider imagination of what’s happening in the piece of art work. The artwork’s, meaning isn’t influenced as much as it would with information (words present on the artwork.)

This work (Miranda Right) makes me almost feel quite serious, this is because the females face used is unemotional and has a serious nature to it. The work has a sense of humor because it almost appears that she is wearing bits of magazine’s and paper for clothing. I like this work because it has a unique and creative feeling. This piece of artwork reminds me of the fashion magazines and advertisement found in New York and other wealth countries, this is because of the way she is poising in the image.

Dain uses vivid primary colors, which represents peace and harmony. They illuminate the darkness and seriousness of the image. The placement of the colours is not organized, instead they are placed very messily, representing madness and almost conflict. The images is carved and ripped in sharp, pointed and smooth ways. I assume the texture of the work is quite bumpy, because of the layering effect. The size of the work was based around the location of where the artwork was going to be placed, in New York. The artwork size is 121.9 × 91.4 × 5.1 cm which is very large, this made it more noticeable to the public, as well as make his point clearer. I believe the focus point on this work, is the eyes of the female. This is indicated by Dain’s trademark, which is the circle with the drip, this is around the eye and almost suggest to target it.

I believe this artwork is impacting the world because it’s implying the negative representation of women. In addition, I also believe that the artwork is successfully appealing and makes the environment it’s placed at more visually appealing as well.